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Worried sick：a prescription for health in an overtreated America

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hadler Nortin M
Published: University of North Carolina Press,
Publisher Address: Chapel Hill
Publication Dates: c2008.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series
Subjects:
Medical care > United States
Medical policy > United States
Older people > Medical care > United States
Medical care > Utilization > United States
Health care reform > United States
Delivery of Health Care > utilization > United States
Aging > psychology > United States
Health Policy > United States
Health Promotion > United States
Unnecessary Procedures > utilization > United States
Carrier Form: 376 p.: ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 9780807831878 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807831875 (cloth : alk. paper)
Index Number: R199
CLC: R199.712
Call Number: R199.712/H131
Contents: "A Caravan book"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-353) and index.
The Methuselah complex -- The heart of the matter -- Risky business : cholesterol, blood sugar, and blood pressure -- You are not what you eat -- Gut check -- Breast cancer prevention : screening the evidence -- The beleaguered prostate -- Disease mongering -- Creakiness -- It's in your mind -- Aging is not a disease -- Working to death -- "Alternative" therapies are not "complementary" -- Assuring health, insuring disease.

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